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name: "Ben Edwards"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ben-edwards-209492"
fi1m_id: "ben-edwards-209492"
imdb_id: "nm0249819"
tmdb_id: 209492
wikidata_id: "Q9653955"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "5 July 1916"
died: "12 February 1999"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T17:21:26.145433+00:00"
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# Ben Edwards

## Identity

Ben Edwards

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ben-edwards-209492
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ben-edwards-209492
- **IMDb ID:** nm0249819
- **TMDB ID:** 209492
- **Wikidata ID:** Q9653955
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9653955, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0249819/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/209492

Production designer. Born 5 July 1916 in Union Springs. Died 12 February 1999.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 5 July 1916, Union Springs
- **Died:** 12 February 1999
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9653955, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0249819/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/209492

## Biography

Ben Edwards (1916–1999) was an American scenic designer, production designer and art director who worked in theatre, film and television.

Born in Union Springs, Alabama, he trained at the Feagin School of Dramatic Arts in New York and began designing for Broadway in the late 1930s. He served in the US Army Air Corps during the Second World War and resumed his career after 1947, designing dozens of stage productions as well as films including *Lovers and Other Strangers* (1970), *Fort Apache, the Bronx* (1981), *Hanky Panky* (1982) and *Sweet Liberty* (1986), and numerous television movies.

Edwards was nominated for twelve Tony Awards and received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre in 1998. He was married to costume designer Jane Greenwood.

*Sources: archives.nypl.org, imdb.com, playbill.com, livedesignonline.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Fort Apache, the Bronx* (1981), Fi1m 56, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/fort-apache-the-bronx.md)

## Complete filmography (29)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Sunshine Boys* (1996), Production Design
- *Broadway Bound* (1992), Production Design
- *Wife, Mother, Murderer: The Marie Hilley Story* (1991), Production Design
- *Liberace: Behind the Music* (1988), Production Design
- *Apology* (1986), Production Design
- *Sweet Liberty* (1986), Production Design
- *Kennedy* (1983), series, Production Design
- *The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana* (1982), as Art Direction
- *Hanky Panky* (1982), Production Design
- *Fort Apache, the Bronx* (1981), Production Design — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/fort-apache-the-bronx.md)
- *Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure* (1979), as Art Direction
- *Home to Stay* (1978), as Art Direction
- *The World Beyond* (1978), Production Design
- *Breaking Up* (1978), as Art Direction
- *World of Darkness* (1977), Production Design
- *Addie and the King of Hearts* (1976), as Art Direction
- *A Moon for the Misbegotten* (1975), Production Design
- *The Easter Promise* (1975), as Art Direction
- *The Country Girl* (1974), as Art Direction
- *The Thanksgiving Treasure* (1973), as Art Direction
- *Class of '44* (1973), Production Design
- *The House Without a Christmas Tree* (1972), as Art Direction
- *Last of the Red Hot Lovers* (1972), as Art Direction
- *Harvey* (1972), as Art Direction
- *All the Way Home* (1971), as Art Direction
- *Jennifer on My Mind* (1971), as Art Direction
- *Lovers and Other Strangers* (1970), Production Design
- *Hamlet* (1964), Production Design
- *Entrée*, as Focus Puller

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 9 nominated

- Tony Award for Best Scenic Design 1986: Tony Award for Best Scenic Design (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Scenic Design 1982: Tony Award for Best Scenic Design (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Scenic Design 1976: Tony Award for Best Scenic Design (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Lighting Design 1974: Tony Award for Best Lighting Design (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Scenic Design 1964: Tony Award for Best Scenic Design (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Scenic Design 1959: Tony Award for Best Scenic Design (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Scenic Design 1958: Tony Award for Best Scenic Design (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Scenic Design 1957: Tony Award for Best Scenic Design (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Scenic Design 1956: Tony Award for Best Scenic Design (nominated)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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